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On the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia there are two flower festivals supported by their respective Societies. Each society has a patron saint on whose feast day the grande fete is celebrated. For the Roses it is the feast of St. Rose of Lima on 30 August; and for the Marguerites it is that of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, 17 October. [25]
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The Sacred Heart became a popular worldwide devotion in large part due to the visions of Margaret Mary Alacoque, who lived and died at the monastery next to the basilica. [ 2 ] The church was built in the 12th century by Hugues de Semur, the most important of the Abbots of Cluny , on the site of a 10th-century monastery founded by count Lambert ...
This is a depiction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Catholic visionary Margaret Mary Alacoque. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a Visitation Sister in Paray-le-Monial, France, claimed to have experienced visions of Jesus Christ during which he showed her his Sacred Heart. On 2 March 1686, she wrote to her Superior, Mother Saumaise, that the Jesus wished ...
He was born in 1641 in the city of Saint-Symphorien-d'Ozon, then in the ancient Province of Dauphiné, the third child of the notary Bertrand La Colombière and of Margaret Coindat. The family soon moved to the nearby city of Vienne , where he began his education, before attending the Jesuit school in Lyon for his secondary studies.
Bossuet introduced him to King Louis XIV of France who appointed him chaplain to his grandson's wife, Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy. Languet de Gercy was the general vicar of the diocese of Autun, which includes the parish of Paray-le-Monial where Saint Marguerite Marie Alacoque is buried. Ordered to investigate the miracles that were said to have ...
He then invited all the faithful to consecrate themselves on the 200th anniversary of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque apparitions. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] On 25 may 1899, Pope Leo XIII consecrated the human race and wrote an Act of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart in his encyclical letter Annum sacrum .
The eastern windows depict the historical devotion to the Sacred Heart: Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque's great apparition (who was really important in the development of the devotion to the Sacred Heart), Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque's vision in the Filbert grove, the Consecration of the city of Marseille to the Sacred Heart (done by bishop Henri ...